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hello,

For my anatomy class in high school, we are researching the genetic

disorder of achondroplasia to highten out awareness of the

condition. I would love to get in contact, by email with some who is

afflicted with achondroplasia or their family members, so my class

may gain new insite into the condition. In paticular I would like to

know how achondroplasia affects the lives of individuals.

Would you be able to help me with this?

thank you for your time

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My daughter has one eye that is totally blue but the other eye is half blue and half brown. It is perfectly divided diagonally between the blue and the brown, The blue is very blue and the brown very brown, I noticed it when she was about a month old. It is still that way to this day and my daughter is 33 years old. Her heterochromia is sectional. Everyone on both sides of the family have blue eyes except that I have one brother that has brown eyes. We have no idea where that came from. My daughter is the only one with blue/brown. Looking at what I just typed "blue/brown" is exactly how her eye is divided. My daughter had three children and is also married to a blue eyed family. Her first child has green eyes but the second two are blue. Hope this helps with your project.indrajit agrawal

<indrajitagrawal@...> wrote: In school i am doing a science project on heterochromia. This project is based on methods used by scientists all around the world. To conclude I will have to display and verbally present it in a school discussion/presentation.I need to form an experiment to confirm previous findings that heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury, eyedrops etc.) rather than inherited.I'll be extremely thankful if any of you would be willing to share family history or other causes of heterochromia.Thank

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Greetings!I just joined the group -- hello everyone!My son, Evan, was born last August. At about a month old, his eyes did the typical baby thing and started to change colors. One eye turned a luscious brown, and the other a delicious green. No one in my family or my husband's family has heterochromia. The pediatric ophthalmologist confirmed that it is congenital and benign (whew!).

A picture of Dad's eyes, my eyes, and Evan's eyes is here on Evan's blog (

http://flyingfam.blogspot.com/2007/11/heterochromia.html). Other posts there have additional details about visits to the doctor for his eyes and so forth.Take care!Krista

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Hi my name is Sheila and I am 51 years of age. I developed

heterochromia sometime after I turned 40. I don'T know the reason, but

I didn't even know until a few people told me I had different color

eyes. At first I thought they were kidding , I never bothered to look,

but after another person told me, I found out it was true. All I can

figure is I once fell very hard on my back and hit my head on the

cement twice when I came down. It was the only time I ever hit my head

or had any injury at all. If this is not the cause then I have no idea

what happened. My right eye is dark brown and my left is green. I have

one daughter with green eyes, my husband had brown like mine. Her eyes

are really beautiful and now I have one green one like hers. I love it.

Well I hope this helps some, I can't tell you anything else as it

really is a mystery to me also. Later Sheila

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I was born with it but also have no known relatives that share the

condition

In school i

am doing a science project on heterochromia. This project

> is very focused and is based on methods used by scientists all

around

> the world. I will have to display and verbally present it in a

school

> forum.

>

> I need to form an experiment to confirm previous findings that

> heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury, eyedrops etc.)

rather

> than inherited.

>

> I'll be extremely thankful if any of you would be willing to share

> family history or other causes of heterochromia.

>

> Thank you for your time and effort.

> M A

>

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Hi Sheila. You probably have what they refer to as acquired

heterochromia from an injury. If you have no vision problems, then

just enjoy the unique beauty of brown and green!

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In school i

> am doing a science project on heterochromia. This project

> > is very focused and is based on methods used by scientists all

> around

> > the world. I will have to display and verbally present it in a

> school

> > forum.

> >

> > I need to form an experiment to confirm previous findings that

> > heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury, eyedrops etc.)

> rather

> > than inherited.

> >

> > I'll be extremely thankful if any of you would be willing to share

> > family history or other causes of heterochromia.

> >

> > Thank you for your time and effort.

> > M A

> >

>

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>

>

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Hi Krista. I'm sure you felt better after your saw the

opthalmalogist. Same for us with my grandson, Preston. It is quite

unnerving when you read about all of the horrors that can be

associated with heterochromia. It is benign for him as well, thank

God, but it is not normal. His eyes are beautiful to us, however. You

can check out his eyes in the photo section of this group.

Best to you, ch

>

> Greetings!

>

> I just joined the group -- hello everyone!

>

> My son, Evan, was born last August. At about a month old, his eyes

did the

> typical baby thing and started to change colors. One eye turned a

luscious

> brown, and the other a delicious green. No one in my family or my

husband's

> family has heterochromia. The pediatric ophthalmologist confirmed

that it

> is congenital and benign (whew!).

>

> A picture of Dad's eyes, my eyes, and Evan's eyes is here on Evan's

> blog<http://flyingfam.blogspot.com/2007/11/heterochromia.html>(

> http://flyingfam.blogspot.com/2007/11/heterochromia.html). Other

posts

> there have additional details about visits to the doctor for his

eyes and so

> forth.

>

> Take care!

> Krista

>

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my daughter (a year old) has one brown eye and one light blue eye with

3 brown dots.. she was born with it. i have read that sometime it is

due to any injury within the womb, i guess there is no way to tell

though.. no other family members have heterochromia that i'm aware of.

good luck on the project, please post your final results for us to see!

>

> In school i am doing a science project on heterochromia. This project

> is very focused and is based on methods used by scientists all around

> the world. I will have to display and verbally present it in a school

> forum.

>

> I need to form an experiment to confirm previous findings that

> heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury, eyedrops etc.)

rather

> than inherited.

>

> I'll be extremely thankful if any of you would be willing to share

> family history or other causes of heterochromia.

>

> Thank you for your time and effort.

> M A

>

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> > In school i am doing a science project on heterochromia. This

project

> > is very focused and is based on methods used by scientists all

around

> > the world. I will have to display and verbally present it in a

school

> > forum.

> >

> > I need to form an experiment to confirm previous findings that

> > heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury, eyedrops etc.)

> rather

> > than inherited.

> >

> > I'll be extremely thankful if any of you would be willing to share

> > family history or other causes of heterochromia.

> >

> > Thank you for your time and effort.

> > M A

> >

>

hi;

my daughter is 17 months old. She has heterochromia. No one in the

family has this condition (my family or my husband's family). has

the left eye blue and right brown. I have no idea what could happend.

Thanks god my daughter has no vision problems or any other problem.

Please wright back when you have finished your proyect.

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Hi!

My son was born with a brown eye and a grey eye. I have brown

eyes and my husband has green eyes.

My grandmother's brother also had heterochromia, he had a blue eye and

a brown one. We believe that 's heterochromia was inherited.

Hope this helps! Good luck

Tania and

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> In school i am doing a science project on heterochromia. This project

> is very focused and is based on methods used by scientists all around

> the world. I will have to display and verbally present it in a school

> forum.

>

> I need to form an experiment to confirm previous findings that

> heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury, eyedrops etc.)

rather

> than inherited.

>

> I'll be extremely thankful if any of you would be willing to share

> family history or other causes of heterochromia.

>

> Thank you for your time and effort.

> M A

>

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I'm 14, and I have a hazel left eye and a green right eye. My mom has

brown eyes, my dad has blue eyes, my little sister has light brown

eyes. My maternal grandparents (grandma has green eyes, grandpa has

brown) and my paternal grandparents (grandma has brown eyes and so

does my grandpa) My eyes were blue until I was about 3 (unusual

since eyes mature at about 6 months) and started becoming blue-green

around 4. One changed faster than the other though. They stayed that

way till I was about 8 or 9 and then started going from green in one

eye and blue green in the other to hazel and green, where they

currently are now. Good luck with your project!

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I've never had any eye accidents to my knowledge, and even early

pictures of me you can see the 1 blue, 1 green eye.

Genetically, I have no clue how this happened. Both parents and both

siblings have brown eyes. Grandmother on father's side had green,

and grandmother on mother's had blue--so maybe that is why? For me

it was definitely inherited, and not due to trauma...

RUTH

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> In school i am doing a science project on heterochromia. This

project

> is very focused and is based on methods used by scientists all

around

> the world. I will have to display and verbally present it in a

school

> forum.

>

> I need to form an experiment to confirm previous findings that

> heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury, eyedrops etc.)

rather

> than inherited.

>

> I'll be extremely thankful if any of you would be willing to share

> family history or other causes of heterochromia.

>

> Thank you for your time and effort.

> M A

>

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> In school i am doing a science project on heterochromia. This

project

> is very focused and is based on methods used by scientists all

around

> the world. I will have to display and verbally present it in a

school

> forum.

>

> I need to form an experiment to confirm previous findings that

> heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury, eyedrops etc.)

rather

> than inherited.

>

> I'll be extremely thankful if any of you would be willing to share

> family history or other causes of heterochromia.

>

i am the 4th generation in my family on my mothers side that the

third child was a girl and had heterochromia, my son is my third and

he has hazel eyes so it didnt continue

> Thank you for your time and effort.

> M A

>

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Cheryl, My name is Sheila and I'am not sure where I developed

Heterochromia, but it happened somtime after I turned forty. There is

no family related traits or reasons for having this. I am the only

person in my family history with heterochromia. I may have developed

this from having hit my head on the cement one day when i fell

backwards. I only guess this because I have no other explanation. My

eyes were dark brown my whole life and one day a person I met mentioned

my different colored eyes. I never gave it much thought until it was

mentioned later my someone else. I finally looked at my eyes and

noticed my left eye had turned green. I was very suprised and couldn't

understand why this happened, and the reason I never noticed it was

because I was one of those people who after turning fourty was no

longer interested in looking at myself in the mirror. So when this

actually happened I will never kinow. But it is a great conversation

piece. Good Luck- Sheila

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>

> In school i am doing a science project on heterochromia. This

project

> is very focused and is based on methods used by scientists all

around

> the world. I will have to display and verbally present it in a

school

> forum.

>

> I need to form an experiment to confirm previous findings that

> heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury, eyedrops etc.)

rather

> than inherited.

>

> I'll be extremely thankful if any of you would be willing to share

> family history or other causes of heterochromia.

>

i am the 4th generation in my family on my mothers side that the

third child was a girl and had heterochromia, my son is my third and

he has hazel eyes so it didnt continue

> Thank you for your time and effort.

> M A

>

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I don't believe I have ever seen a post at this site (over 600 of us)

from someone who has heterochromia due to an injury or eye drops.

And I have met several people over the years and all inherited their

beautiful eyes. Have you spoken to an opthmologist or other eye

doctor? The only person I ever hear of with different colored eyes

due to an injury is Bowie. I had a cousin with heterochromia--

I have one hazel green eye and one hazel brown eye.. and now, 2

generations later, my neice has a son with one dark gray eye and one

blue eye.

Let us all know how your project goes.

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>

> what kind of information do u require

> please specify

>

> i was born with heterochromia

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> left eye blue, right eye blue|brown

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> heterochromia@...: indrajitagrawal@...: Sat, 12 Jan 2008

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> In school i am doing a science project on heterochromia. This

project is very focused and is based on methods used by scientists

all around the world. I will have to display and verbally present it

in a school forum.I need to form an experiment to confirm previous

findings that heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury,

eyedrops etc.) rather than inherited.I'll be extremely thankful if

any of you would be willing to share family history or other causes

of heterochromia.Thank you for your time and effort.M A

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I don't have any other explanation for my green left eye, It happened

late in life and after 40 years of dark brown eyes this was a trip to

see this change. I have talked to an eye doctor but he had no real

answer for me. But it was just a passing conversation when he was

seeing my Dad. One day I will get it checked out, and see if there is

an explanation for this. There is no one in my family history with it.

So i guess I am pretty unique. Well thanks for the info. Sheila

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> In school i am doing a science project on heterochromia. This

project is very focused and is based on methods used by scientists

all around the world. I will have to display and verbally present it

in a school forum.I need to form an experiment to confirm previous

findings that heterochromia is more commonly acquired (injury,

eyedrops etc.) rather than inherited.I'll be extremely thankful if

any of you would be willing to share family history or other causes

of heterochromia.Thank you for your time and effort.M A

>

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Hi,

It's great that you're doing this project. I hope you share the

results with us!

I have a twin sister. We look VERY similar, but she doesn't have

heterochromia. There is the unfounded theory I was perhaps kicked in

utero, but I think it's more likely my eye coloration is due to genetics.

I have a nearly black colored iris, and a hazely green mixed eye, that

has all the colors of my mother, father, brother and sister's eyes

(green, blue, gray and golden brown.)

No one in my immediate or extended family (100+ people) has

heterochromia.

My brother's eyes changed color during puberty, as did my dad's.

These stories of people's one eye changing at 40 are fascinating! I

had no idea that could happen.

My eyes were dark blue til I was about 1 year old, one slightly darker

than the other, then they began to change color.

Good luck with your study!

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Hello , caught your reply about being fascinated with the story of

my one eye changing color after i turned forty. I was just as freaked

out as anyone when it happened to me. I would have never thought this

was possible, but it was. I would love to find out what happened to me

for this to have taken place. I guess I will always wonder? I have

asked many people and there have been some interesting reasons for this

but the only one that could be remotely possible would be the fall I

took. but even that is unsure. Would love to have an answer, but I

really don't believe I will ever get one. Well it is a very interesting

conversation piece. God Bless Sheila

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Hi,

It's great that you're doing this project. I hope you share the

results with us!

I have a twin sister. We look VERY similar, but she doesn't have

heterochromia. There is the unfounded theory I was perhaps kicked in

utero, but I think it's more likely my eye coloration is due to

genetics.

I have a nearly black colored iris, and a hazely green mixed eye, that

has all the colors of my mother, father, brother and sister's eyes

(green, blue, gray and golden brown.)

No one in my immediate or extended family (100+ people) has

heterochromia.

My brother's eyes changed color during puberty, as did my dad's.

These stories of people's one eye changing at 40 are fascinating! I

had no idea that could happen.

My eyes were dark blue til I was about 1 year old, one slightly darker

than the other, then they began to change color.

Good luck with your study!

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